Virus Warning

[GlobalCat]

My Anti-Virus program just alerted me that forum.goazcats.com attempted to install a trjan horse on my computer. I'm assuming that this is on of the fancy ads that was displaying?


Trojan:JS/Redirector.jl

Aliases
Packed.JS.Agent.bz (Kaspersky) JS/Obfuscated.g (McAfee)
Hack.Exploit.Script.JS.Obfuscator.a (Rising AV)
Mal/ObfJS-CM (Sophos)
Trojan.Malscript!html (Symantec)

Summary
Trojan:JS/Redirector.CI is a detection for obfuscated JavaScript contained within Web pages. This JavaScript may be present on a malicious Web site, and is used to redirect users to Web sites other than those of the user's choice.

[ASUCatfan]

Which A/V are you using? Could be a false positive... Are you running Internet Explorer? If not, what are you running? Firefox with Noscript and AdBlock Plus keep me pretty safe.

[GlobalCat]

IE 7, with Windows Defender. Referenced potential javascript issues from inserted ads when I researched online

[EndOfAnEra]

Yep. Problem needs to be fixed. My computer reported the site as unsafe and a threat.

I'm guessing it's ad related as well.

[ASUCatfan]

Security wise, Internet Explorer is a really bad idea. That said, it sounds like one of the ads on the site is trying to insert some malicious code.

[Machina]

My work has some ad blocker. I dont know a lot about computers so I dont want to sound dumb, but most ads on every page do not show up, there is just a blank box for them.

[84Cat]

Firefox with Noscript and AdBlock Plus keep me pretty safe.

Only way to surf the net IMHO!

[barringer97]

Awesome. Just installed adblock for chrome. Thanks.

[GlobalCat]

Yeah, work computer won't let me install anything other than IE7.

[Dosia]

I got that virus on my work cpu and I must say, it sure was a pain in the ass to remove!

[Merkin]

<a target='_blank' title='ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting' href='http://img94.imageshack.us/i/429201093219am.jpg/'><img src='http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/3678/429201093219am.jpg' border='0'/></a>

[the real dill]

this is trash goazcats. I got it too

[Merkin]

Doesn't happen all the time, like ASUCatfan said it is probably just one ad.

[the real dill]

Doesn't happen all the time, like ASUCatfan said it is probably just one ad.

Ask any AIDS patient. It only takes one. Has the problem been solved? It seems like rivals/yahoo/goazcats would disable flash ads until the issue has been resolved. This is the way other Rivals boards have handled from my understanding.

[Merkin]

I believe the free site is hosted out of Storey's Web1616 company, this can't bode well for any other of his clients, besides other UA fansites using this to trash this site some more.

[Josh Gershon]

We're looking into the problem, but we've confirmed that it has nothing to do with the ads. Hopefully we'll have the issue resolved ASAP.

[wosn99]

Ask any AIDS patient. It only takes one. Has the problem been solved? It seems like rivals/yahoo/goazcats would disable flash ads until the issue has been resolved. This is the way other Rivals boards have handled from my understanding.


Get a Mac and be immune to computer AIDS! Unless you have David Ortiz anywhere on the compy, then you're screwed no matter what OS you have going on.

[UAdevil]

^ Just wait until Mac's market share increases and folks actually feel like writing viruses for them!

[wosn99]

^ Just wait until Mac's market share increases and folks actually feel like writing viruses for them!

Won't matter. Apple doesn't have a POS in IE as the core of their OS like Windows does.

[77HoyaCat4Ever]

Agree with wosn99. I really don't know why everyone doesn't ditch their crappy PCs and switch to MACs.

But it isn't totally that simple, although most viruses do come in through open Windows.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/12571/why-don-t-apple-computers-get-viruses

[the real dill]

Agree with wosn99. I really don't know why everyone doesn't ditch their crappy PCs and switch to MACs.

But it isn't totally that simple, although most viruses do come in through open Windows.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/12571/why-don-t-apple-computers-get-viruses

I use firefox with adblock at home, but I'm not aware on any large publicly traded entities that don't use PC with IE.

[ASUCatfan]

Won't matter. Apple doesn't have a POS in IE as the core of their OS like Windows does.

Safari is significantly less secure than IE. OS X is significantly less secure at this point than Windows. Apple's marketing, however, is great and people who don't know much about computers seem to believe their hype. There are, however, much fewer bugs out there that are written to run on OS X because of the relatively small installed base. Expect that to change as Apple continues to grow.

[wosn99]

Safari is significantly less secure than IE. OS X is significantly less secure at this point than Windows. Apple's marketing, however, is great and people who don't know much about computers seem to believe their hype. There are, however, much fewer bugs out there that are written to run on OS X because of the relatively small installed base. Expect that to change as Apple continues to grow.

Whatever. Safari isn't my browser of choice but it is vulnerable on Windows because of Windows. Show me one person that can remotely access a Mac without the help of a Trojan and I will show you a liar. I can take control of my neighbors PC and kick him off of his own wireless network. Can't do that to a Mac. User install base or not, a PC connected to the Internet is just inviting trouble.

[wosn99]

Agree with wosn99. I really don't know why everyone doesn't ditch their crappy PCs and switch to MACs.

But it isn't totally that simple, although most viruses do come in through open Windows.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/12571/why-don-t-apple-computers-get-viruses

There are a lot of uneducated short bus riders in that thread. I get the "bang for your buck" theory but the stability and vulnerability of the OS is not mentioned. Christ, Windows 7 is built off of Vista which is built off of XP which is built off of 2000, off of ME, off of 98, off of 95, off of 3.1, etc. There are 20 year old vulnerabilities that Microsoft just got around to patching for crying out loud.

Here is the usual song and dance to explain Apple's lack of viruses:

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/macs-just-as-vulnerable-to-viruses-as-windows-133242

Here is one about a 17 year old vulnerability, (from Windows freaking 3.1!) Microsoft was kind enough to finally close:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8499859.stm

And finally one of my personal faves: (No way this happens on a Mac)

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/22989/

[Merkin]

You can still run a Windows 3.1 app on Windows 7. Can a new Macintosh OS run a program from 20 years ago?

That's MS's problem, backwards compatability.

[ASUCatfan]

Actually, Vista and 7 are built off of a completely different architecture than XP, although there have been steps taken to ensure backwards compatibility. You're simply wrong about Macs being more secure (or even particularly difficult to take over remotely, see the last several years of pwn2own competitions) than a PC running Windows. Vista was quite secure, in spite of a number of memory address problems that plagued it pre-Service Pack 1. Windows 7 has even more refined security features than Vista. XP is a piece of crap and it is unfortunate that people bought into the anti-VIsta hype early on and stuck with it.

[scumdevils86]

I've had far more problems with any Mac I have ever used than any PC in the last 15 years.

[phenom5]

I use both, and IME there are pluses & minuses to both.

Mac OS is good, but it's not as great as many of the Mac zealots would lead you to believe. Windoze/ Vista/ Win7 has it's fair share of problems, but it's not as bad as some would lead you to believe.

[Chicat]

Caught that virus on my work computer. Sucked big time.

In fact, I'm not sure why I'm back on the boards. If I have to tell my IT Dept. that I got another virus they are going to recommend that I get fired.

[jAZ]

Josh/Jim, What was the problem?

[Merkin]

If I have to tell my IT Dept. that I got another virus they are going to recommend that I get fired.

Need to to take care of it yourself. When my coworkers get a virus and notify IT, IT takes their computer and wipes it, losing everything and have you have to reinstall all your custom apps.

I picked up a really nasty virus onetime, and took me about 4 hours to get rid of it, but it was worth it. I was trying to find a certain PDF and unfortunately Google led me to a site that gave me a virus. Thought it was legit too.

Some great FREE virus clearing apps:

http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?part=dl-10804572&subj=dl&tag=button

http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispyware.html

[Chicat]

Need to to take care of it yourself.

I don't have admin privileges on my work computer, so I can't install or remove any programs unfortunately. So yeah, had to send it into IT and they wiped it clean. The nice thing is that they took an image of my computer and were able to reinstall everything pretty much just like I had it before (minus the virus of course).

[Merkin]

I don't have admin privileges on my work computer, so I can't install or remove any programs unfortunately. So yeah, had to send it into IT and they wiped it clean. The nice thing is that they took an image of my computer and were able to reinstall everything pretty much just like I had it before (minus the virus of course).

Not having admin privileges really suck. But since I am part of IT and run a lot of unique apps they give me admin privileges under a different account.

I thought it really strange though that it takes admin privileges to install any program, yet I picked up that virus on my non-admin working account. How the heck did that happen?

[the real dill]

Josh/Jim, What was the problem?

The silence is deafening, isn't it. Also, I doesn't appear it has been fixed. My money is on one of the flash ads. Orangebloods had the exact same issue a couple months ago on the premium board and it was one of the ads.

[Josh Gershon]

I believe it was a vBulletin issue and we've upgraded the software so the issue should be resolved. We have been assured by Google (the only ad network that we serve ads from) that it is not coming from their ads. We are working with vBulletin to ensure that there are no vulnerabilities through their software. We are certain the issue was not coming from ads.

I apologize for any issues caused by this.

[ghostwhitehorse]

Just got pinged by that damn thing again. . .

[the real dill]

Just got pinged by that damn thing again. . .

I picked it up again Friday on my work PC.

[77HoyaCat4Ever]

You can get it from door knobs and toilet seats too.

An Apple (and Firefox) a day keeps the viruses away.

[Chicat]

Just got pinged by it again but the antivirus software I have caught it.

Someone email me when the virus is gone. I can't afford to get it again.

[scumdevils86]

A pc/firefox/ad blocker combo seems to make me immune to all viruses

[77HoyaCat4Ever]

http://w-shadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AdBlock-Popularity.png

[wosn99]

I've had far more problems with any Mac I have ever used than any PC in the last 15 years.

You're doing it wrong.

[GlobalCat]

http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp


Great ad opt out site for the marketing database companies